Heavy duty rod holders
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Topic: Heavy duty rod holders
Posted By: Hamish_S
Subject: Heavy duty rod holders
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2010 at 4:32pm
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Hi there, Im looking to get into game fishing and im slowly working on setting my boat up to make this possiable. My rod holders are currently plastic and to be honest are not very heavy duty so im looking to replace these with some metal ones that will handle a decent strike with out being ripped out!
Now here is the question the boat is alloy so what ones do i need to look for? i assume stainless ones will cause dramas with metal on metal reactions. so what are my options???
Cheers
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Posted By: Blue Asparagus
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2010 at 4:44pm
you can buy alloy ones mate, but then it has to be fastened to the boat using stainless bolts dont buy those spot welded pieces of rubbish either, you will be most sorry if you do, I had all mine custom made to take 80 wides, base plates 140mmx100mm and huge plates put in where the rod gimble would be they work a treat. ------------- Ultimate GAME Fishing Adventures. Northland |
Posted By: [email protected]
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2010 at 5:02pm
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If you are in Auckland then pop into Anzor fastners in Albany. They make a specific heavy heavy Stainless Holder for the Game Boats which I hapopened on and they are a lovely bit of work. They were wanting $230.00 a pop for them and I brought 6 of them at $55.00 a pop.
Bloody nice bit of kit they are tooo ! !
http://www.anzor.co.nz/site_resources/library/Product%20Catalogue%20Images/Marine%20Hardware/SFG216017-Flush-Mount-Rod-Holder.jpg - http://www.anzor.co.nz/site_resources/library/Product%20Catalogue%20Images/Marine%20Hardware/SFG216017-Flush-Mount-Rod-Holder.jpg
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Posted By: Moonlighter
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2010 at 8:42pm
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Have a look at this website - they have dealers in a few places.
These are the HD alloy cast rod holders used by the likes of Surtees and others when you specify HD rod holders over the standard plastic ones.
http://www.seaco.co.nz/01-aluminium-deck-mount-rod-holder.html - http://www.seaco.co.nz/01-aluminium-deck-mount-rod-holder.html Cheers
ML
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Posted By: Busted!
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2010 at 10:25pm
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Burnsco and other marine suppliers do a cast stainless top with a fully welded tube section rod holder. Stainless pin inside, so should last forever...
Reasonably cheap to and very readily available. I would steer clear of ali rod holders personally, but I'm an engineer and I guess I know too much about the failure modes of aluminium...
What I have done (my launch is aluminium) is mount the rod holder on a spreader base with bolts, and then sika and rivet the spreader base down to the hull.
In my case, as the boat is faired and painted it looks mint as and the rod holders can double as tow points for the Bluebridge ferry. The secret is with mounting them is the normal rod holder has the mounting bolts too close to the rodholder tube. There isn't enough meat holding the base to the hull with the size of the rod holder tube...
If you use the spreader base or doubler plate you increase the force required to loosen the rod holder by a factor of ten. The other point is glue it down with Sikaflex 291 as well, as that particular compound sticks poo to clouds.
One you are mounting them, make sure that regardless of the angle of the rodholder to the centerline of the boat the line comes directly off the tip roller and not the side of the rod tip. It can chafe the line... You can adjust the angle of the rod in the holder by repositioning the gimbal pin. There doesn't need to be much hanging onto the pin, there isn't normally much weight on it as it is taken up by the base of the rodholder and the rod butt.
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